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Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States.It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. [2]
Since 2000, 1,942 Catholic schools around the country have shut their doors, and enrollment has dropped by 621,583 students, to just over 2 million in 2012, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Many Catholic schools are being squeezed out of the education market by financial issues and publicly funded charter schools. [13]
The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in the Catholic Church have founded and managed a number of educational institutions, including the notable secondary schools, colleges, and universities listed here. Some of these universities are in the United States where they are organized as the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities .
His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son, and Leland Stanford told his wife, "The children of California shall be our children." [ 2 ] The Stanfords visited Harvard 's president, Charles Eliot , and asked whether they should establish a university, technical school or museum.
Top adviser to President-elect Trump, Kellyanne Conway is said to be concerned about her children’s education options in their new hometown.
Benedictine College School of Engineering (Atchison, Kansas) Catholic University School of Engineering (Washington, D.C.) Christian Brothers University School of Engineering (Memphis, Tennessee) Fairfield University School of Engineering (Fairfield, Connecticut) Gannon University College of Engineering and Business (Erie, Pennsylvania)
By the time of 1964–1965, Catholic schools accounted for nearly 89% of all private school attendance and 12% of all school-age children in school (K-12) in the USA. The number of religious (priests, brothers, and sisters) was at its highest, allowing schools to offer qualified teachers at minimal costs, meaning that most children in the 1940s ...
By the mid-1960s, enrollment in Catholic parochial schools had reached an all-time high of 4.5 million elementary school pupils, with about 1 million students in Catholic high schools. The enrollments steadily declined as Catholics moved to the suburbs, where the children attended public schools.